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A FINE AND RARE TIANBAI ANHUA-DECORATED 清康熙 甜白釉暗刻雲龍戲珠紋盌 PROPERTY FROM A DISTINGUISHED JAPANESE PRIVATE COLLECTION 清十八世紀 蘋果綠釉瓶

‘DRAGON’ BOWL 《永樂年製》仿款 AN APPLE-GREEN CRACKLED GLAZED BOTTLE
QING DYNASTY, KANGXI PERIOD QING DYNASTY, 18TH CENTURY 來源：
delicately potted and carved in anhua with two scaly five- 來源： the exterior and base decorated with a translucent crackled Frank Partridge and Sons Ltd，倫敦
clawed dragons in pursuit of flaming pearls amongst flames, Clayton W. Miller 夫人於1946年前捐贈予芝加哥藝術博 apple-green glaze, the interior also with crackles, the footring
the underside with a four-character Yongle mark 物館，編號46.460 applied with a brown wash, Japanese wood box 展覽：
12.5 cm, 4⅞ in. 《參加倫敦中國藝術國際展覽會出品圖說》，英國皇
16.9 cm, 6⅝ in.
此盌妙仿永樂甜白暗花雙龍紋盌，胎薄勻淨。明代雛 家藝術學院，倫敦，1935-1936年，編號2354
PROVENANCE PROVENANCE
Collection of Mrs Clayton W. Miller, donated to the Art Institute 例可參考台北故宮所藏二盌，收錄在《適於心：明代 Frank Partridge and Sons Ltd, London.
of Chicago prior to 1946, inventory no. 46.460. 永樂皇帝的瓷器》，台北，2017年，頁36-37。
EXHIBITED
HK$ 200,000-300,000 International Exhibition of Chinese Art, Royal Academy of Arts,
US$ 25,900-38,800 London, 1935-1936, cat. no. 2354.

Two prototypes of the current bowl in National Palace HK$ 70,000-90,000
Museum, Taipei, are included in the Museum’s exhibition US$ 9,100-11,700
Pleasingly Pure and Lustrous. Porcelains from the Yongle Reign
(1403-1424) of the Ming Dynasty, Taipei, 2017, pp. 36-37. Compare a similar example, also formerly dealt by Frank
Partridge and Sons Ltd., London, and included in the
International Exhibition of Chinese Art, Royal Academy of Arts,
London, 1935-6, cat. no. 2352, sold twice in our London rooms,
6th July 1971, lot 201 and 14th April 1980, lot 329, and again
in these rooms, 20th May 1981, lot 802. Compare also a very
similar vase, of smaller size, illustrated in R.L. Hobson, Later
Ceramic Wares of China, col. pl. XXIII, fig. 1.

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